Thea Sharrock on After the Dance by Rattigan

INTERNATIONAL THEATRE Thea Sharrock, new artistic director of the Gate, Notting Hill, and Lara Foot Newton, author of Tshepang, talk about theatre in the new South Africa. Dominic Cavendish quizzes.

INTERVIEW: JEANIE O'HARE The Royal Shakespeare Company Dramaturg gives a quick curtain-raiser overview of the new Revolutions season at the RSC in Stratford-upon-Avon. Dominic Cavendish quizzes, with a competing chorus of swans, ducks and geese in at...

HAROLD PINTER SPECIAL Actors Niall Buggy and Anna Calder-Marshall join director Claire Lovett to talk about reviving A Kind of Alaska and A Slight Ache at the Gate Theatre, Notting Hill. Philip Fisher hosts.

INTERVIEW: JOE PENHALL (1/2) As the Sheffield Crucible revives his Blue/Orange (2000), the playwright discusses his controversial hit about mental health and racial identity. Aleks Sierz quizzes.